On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 10:59:42PM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> However, if you are trying to copy, move or delete large directories
> (with many subdirectories), it is both much more convenient as well as
> much safer to use the SuperUser FileManager. The fear of losing
> EVERYTHING by typing the rm / command is enough in itself to justify
See, and that's the exact reason why I'd suggest to put the SuperUser
FileManager as far away as possible! It's at least as easy if not easier to
delete your harddrives with a graphical frontend than it is by typing rm /
as root, and besides typing rm / will ask you at every file if you want to
delete or not and the standard setup of kfmsu asks only once! So it's a
whole lot unsafer to use kfmsu than to use a terminal.
And really, how often do you need access to the su FM? There really isn't
that lot to copy/delete/whatever as root. More often I have to edit files
as root, and for this a su FM doesn't help at all.
> using the graphical SuperUser File Manager as root, not only for newbies
> but even for experienced users.
Completely disagree, see above.
>
> Linux-Mandrake is "the user-friendly OS", which it INDEED is. It's
> fabulous. It would help the newbie to know about the SuperUser and to
No, it would harm him. root work has to be uncomfortable, or the newbie
will do everything as root, because it's oh so "convenient".
> have it prominently displayed and accessible, preferably as an icon on
> the desktop or at least as a separate menu item as in LM 7.0. As they
Good gracious! Mandrake should *NOT* *AT* *ALL* put the superuser
filemanager on the desktop! That should the user really do by himself.
It's good enough that it's included in the menus (yes, it is!)
Alexander Skwar
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